Originally Posted by Beoz

You see. Brisbane and the Gold Coast are just dumps. You pay for what you get.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

Likewise, I reckon we would have been able to down a few pints together while putting the world to rights!
I would love to be able to move to Melbourne, or better still Hobart, but unfortunately I am in a very specialised role and I can't replicate either the role or the salary elsewhere. So I settle for spending time out of Queensland whenever possible and just bite my tongue and keep my head down for the rest!

I know there are people on the forum who love Brisbane and the Gold Coast, adore the heat (usually from within their air-conned large houses) and spend time in pools and on beaches, and good luck to them. If they have found their idea of utopia here then I'm pleased for them. But from day one BE has been somewhere that people could post their honest feelings about the place they find themselves in, and that should always be the case.
Looking back to the days before I moved, back in 2002-3, there were a couple of posters in Queensland, Dotty and Ceri, who were very vocal about the problems of living here, especially those which are heat related. If I had to think about making the move again I would be paying far more attention to them than I did at the time.

Originally Posted by denzil73

As for hindsight and what not, if I'd lived in Brisbane for 6mnths to a year before meeting my wife then I have the strong feeling I wouldn't have moved there for her. Much as I love her but I gave up a heck of a lot to be with her and it's only after you've lived somewhere for a while that you can gain that perspective.

Originally Posted by denzil73

I really hope your situation gets better cos I personally don't like feeling like I've wasted years of my life that I'll never get back.

Originally Posted by jad n rich

Meanwhile... Brisbane seems to have temporarily dropped down in humidity, for something resembling a southern state heatwave, but mid 30's, not the roarin 40's delight that sometimes hits down there.

I am checkin out of brisbane on weekend back to melbourne, business dictates the dates but it had better be wet, cold and windy, looks like I may get a couple of days of that but very wary, its now the First day of Furnace February.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

I could've written that paragraph myself!! Its spot on.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

To be honest I think I'm too old and past it now - certainly too old to think about anything ie a career change/fresh start. I hate spending my life regretting things so I just rely on coping by focusing on my next trip

Originally Posted by denzil73

Love it and couldn't agree more

Noosa and Mooloolaba are the nice parts of the southeast

Originally Posted by denzil73

Though I could never tell my wife that. She wouldn't be amused.



I just don't like the feeling that I've wasted time that could have been spent doing more enjoyable things. It's time I'll never get back and although what's done is done I would have liked to have been doing better things with my time.
Love and duty are what keep me here and if I wasn't such a decent guy I'd probably have left years ago.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

Its something a lot of people don't realise, isn't it. If they move here as a family, based on skills, then its a bit different from those of us who move here for a partner. I've had so many conversations on here over the years where people have said 'just go home' -not necessarily to me but to other poms married to Aussies. Its so hard to explain sometimes that when you have a couple who originate in different countries, one of them will always be away from their home country. As you say, you move for a mix of love and duty, and sometimes it works. For me sadly it didn't in the end, but by then I was too far down a specialised career path to move back (and too broke!).

I had a partner in Tassie for a few years, I loved it there, nearly moved there but circumstances turned bad and he passed away. I ended up in Brisbane married to a Queenslander and stupidly ignored the many people on here who tried to point out the differences between living in Tassie and living in Qld..........ah hindsight again!

Maybe one day climate change will incease the UK's potential to be affected by cyclones and they'll offer me a job